BLOG #12: CHAPTER 10 ; THE WORLD OF CHRISTENDOM

While reading Chapter 10 I learned first that Yao Hong, who was actually a Chinese woman, made an impact on the growth of Christianity in China. I was rather surprised to read this because I didn't expect to start the reading off with a woman having an impact on the growth of Christianity in China due to the time frame the chapter is based off of which is 500-1300. I was not surprised to read that Latin America was perimarily under Catholic reign, many people converted to Protestant Christianity because I am personally Roman Catholic myself, I grew up going to church with my family every sunday and I got baptized as a baby into the religion and went through the process until recieving Communion or Confirmation in high school. I have experienced family members, more so distant family members, converting from the Catholic faith to specifically the Protestant Christian faith denomination. I was surpsied to read that Christianity contracted in Asia and Africa but also expanded to not only Western Europe but Russia although in The Conversion of Russia section it mentioned that they were the Orthodox Christian demonination I was also surprised to read that.that Europse was the principal center of the Chrisitan Faith. And it was cool to read in the Conversion of russian section how the religion reflected the regions cultural diversity because Russia's a lot different in today's society. One thing that really caught my attention was at the end of the chapter was The section about the plague because it seems I have  been talking about and learning about plagues these past two weeks in all of my classes and it just interests me more now to learn about the Black Death because it minimized the human population by so much and took us almost 300 years to reboot back to what the population was prior to the plague.